Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Chen Zhiwei remains missing.

Su Ming couldn't find her.

The bodies of the fake people have shown obvious signs of decay.

The whole world was covered by a foul, fishy smell.

Whispers permeated every corner of the world, wails mingled, and painful roars echoed, like a grand apocalyptic chorus.

Su Ming investigated Jintai Residential Area for three days.

There are no clues.

No one knows what happened in Jintai Residential Area.

It became a blank in history.

The fleshy membrane enveloping this world grew thicker and thicker, with hanging blood vessels intertwining to form a massive mass of flesh and blood.

That is the flesh and blood that covers the entire world.

Looking up, you can see a dark mass of flesh and blood, which looks like it could crush you at any moment.

Su Ming couldn't help but think of the fairy tale "The Little Spider and the Black Stone".

The wellhead was blocked by a large rock.

It's really blocked now.

So.

The black stone will appear sooner or later, and it will make a sound.

Turning his gaze away, Su Ming opened his receiving page.

The progress bar for the fourth unknown knowledge has reached 99.1%.

It will be complete soon.

After waiting patiently for more than an hour, the progress bar finally reached 100%.

In an instant, a flood of new knowledge rushed into Su Ming's mind.

That's about another way of seeing.

Seeing is no longer simply about using your eyes to look at something.

Instead, they look to the past.

It's hard to describe this strange feeling in words.

When you understand it, it takes root and becomes part of your own cognitive system.

It seems to be related to time.

It concerns the past, but cannot connect to the future.

In a word.

Su Ming can see the past of the other lives.

If he so chooses, life will be like a book to be flipped through at will, a movie to be replayed at will.

All secrets and experiences will be revealed without reservation.

However, the future is unseen.

Once this knowledge is complete, it gradually integrates into the overall knowledge system of the Grand View.

Because its essence and grand vision are of the same kind.

The progress bar for the grand view suddenly jumped by 1%, reaching 2.5%.

Su Ming looked up, and the dots in his pupils began to deform, as if being torn apart by an invisible force.

Soon, his pupils became horizontal.

His previous vertical pupils allowed him to focus on one point, see further, and see more clearly.

The distance to the horizontal pupil has not changed, but its range has expanded.

That's the time frame.

Su Ming can see the traces of the past.

In his eyes, the flesh and veins around him began to flow backward, the vanished sunlight reappeared, normal buildings appeared, and normal humans appeared.

He saw the past before the world was extinguished.

Pedestrians on the street are going about their normal lives.

The sunlight illuminates the whole world, and the wind rustles the leaves.

Let's continue reading.

Life was peaceful and stable.

In his eyes, time in the world is flowing backward.

From 2003 back to 2002, and from 2002 back to 2001.

A constant countercurrent.

Then, in 1996, 30 years ago...

This year was defined by scientists as the first year of the catastrophe.

The first strange and unusual event on Earth occurred in this year.

In 1996, Ninghai City did not have towering skyscrapers, the streets were not wide, and there were even fewer cars on the road. Occasionally, a green minibus would slowly drive by.

The street is lined with old-style brick buildings and apartment buildings.

The street was lined with small tin shops and general stores, with handwritten signs hanging on their sides.

There are also video arcades, billiards stands, old-fashioned newsstands, popular DVDs, and Hong Kong and Taiwan posters everywhere.

This simple yet nostalgic atmosphere is full of the unique sense of the 1990s.

Su Ming strode toward the newsstand.

He was like a ghost; no one could detect him.

Su Ming couldn't touch the newspapers on the newsstand, but he could see them.

His gaze fell on the yellowed newspaper pages.

Three hikers mysteriously disappeared last night in the mountains outside Ninghai City; police conducted a thorough search but found no trace of them.

Below is a blurry black-and-white photo of a mountain forest.

There were also news reports about the completion of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway and the enthusiastic celebrations organized by the people of the province.

The corners are printed with reports of the Atlanta Olympics and the good news of athletes winning gold medals.

Su Ming also saw the tour announcement for the Four Heavenly Kings concert.

Reviews of the theatrical release of "A Chinese Odyssey" and street reports on the popularity of VCDs.

1996 marked the limit of Su Ming's horizontal pupils.

Su Ming didn't seem to realize the problem from the newspaper.

He only felt that people in this era lived at a slow pace and had a high happiness index.

Just as he was about to withdraw his eyeliner.

A small figure appeared not far away.

It's Wen Qi.

Ten-year-old Wen Qi.

She carried her schoolbag, her hair tied in a simple low ponytail, and walked alone on the bustling street, her steps slow and her expression calm.

"Wen Qi".

Su Ming called out instinctively.

Wen Qi didn't react; instead, he passed right through her body.

She turned around to look at Wen Qi's back.

In 1996, Wen Qi was only ten years old.

Despite being so young, he seemed out of place among the children running around on the street, exuding a composure beyond his years.

She walked alone and quietly across the street until she disappeared completely around the corner.

Su Ming looked up and stared directly at the blinding sun.

The sun was normal in 1996.

His pupils began to contract, rapidly expanding like a progress bar.

Time began to accelerate forward.

1997, 1998, 1999... the years jumped by quickly, the torrent of time swept by, and finally settled steadily in 2003.

He saw himself at the beginning of 2003.

She had been following Wen Qi, trying to get his attention.

He saw himself sitting at the entrance of the residential area and wondered why Wen Qi was ignoring him.

Speaking of the neighborhood.

Su Ming carefully observed the Jintai residential area.

It still stands in Ninghai City, both intact and incomplete.

The people around did not notice anything amiss.

It seems that by giving in to the instinct to grow flesh and blood, I changed Jintai Community forever.

This change lasted throughout its life.

No one will realize that it was incomplete from the beginning.

This is not simply about changing the perception of a single life.

It changed the world's perception.

The worldline of the entire world is automatically corrected, and the default setting for Jintai Community has always been like this.

This power is terrifying.

It's so terrifying that even if you understand it, you won't know how to stop it.

At this moment, Wen Qi had already arrived in front of Su Ming.

To be precise, it was another Su Ming in front of him, the Su Ming who had just entered 2003.

She began to speak.

I've been watching you for a long time.

"You've been following me all day."

"Are you a time traveler?"

"From the future? Or the past?"

"Are we close?"

It feels strange even though it's familiar.

Su Ming felt like he was watching a movie about himself.

He watched himself go from shock to rage, then hoisted Wen Qi onto his shoulder and carried her into the grove.

Seeing Wen Qi suddenly kiss him, he was so coaxed into becoming an embryo.

She watched as Wen Qi led her home.

Watching Wen Qi manage to coax him into revealing everything he knew within three days, he was utterly bewildered.

She watched as Wen Qi kissed her and then went to the washroom.

Watching Wen Qi raise his fingertip and write the words "Strange Awakener" stroke by stroke on the wall covered with water mist.

Then, Wen Qi closed her eyes, and her black hair rose slowly without any wind.

"So, this is when you became an Awakened One."

Su Ming muttered to himself.

He continued watching.

Listening to Wen Qi's inappropriate remark to himself, "It's not that difficult."

Watching Wen Qi return to the room, she quietly stared at herself as she slept soundly.

"Is that you?"

"Su Ming".

Suddenly, a chilling sound filled the room.

Wen Qi didn't see him.

But her words seemed to be directed at herself.

How did she realize it?

This is completely illogical.

Before he could react, Wen Qi had already started speaking to himself, as if he were answering a riddle that no one had asked.

"Don't be nervous."

"It was the frequency that told me."

Her black hair was slowly wriggling in an eerie posture.

Everything in the world has its own frequency.

"If you have ever existed, you will inevitably leave a trace."

"You must be Su Ming from the future."

The next moment, Wen Qi posed a question that overturned Su Ming's understanding.

She asked, "Su Ming."

"What you believe you understand about memories now."

"Is it a completely new memory for you, or is it filling in the gaps in your past memories?"

Su Ming didn't know how to answer this question.

For him, these things were new memories, things he had just learned.

It can be viewed from the perspective of time.

His gaze returned to the past. These things did not belong to the future; they merely filled in the gaps in his past memories, making them more complete.

Su Ming couldn't help but ask, "You suspect that my memory is incomplete?"

He forgot.

Wen Qi cannot hear.

It was already quite incredible that she could sense the gaze directed at her.

But in reality...

Wen Qi couldn't hear, but that didn't mean she couldn't guess.

A vision from the future.

A person standing in the past.

At this moment, a dialogue that transcends time unexpectedly unfolds.

"Don't doubt your memory."

"Your memory is complete, and this memory only makes it more complete and comprehensive."

"I heard you say that you received some unknown knowledge called Da Guan."

"If you look back on the past with a broad perspective, then you have confirmed one of my conjectures."

"I can't kill you."

"Or rather, no one can kill you."

"Everything about you may be being watched by your future self."

Su Ming was immediately terrified and broke out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't help but look around.

A future version of yourself gazing at your present self.

And now, I gaze at my past self.

Even further into the future, gazing at one's future self.

Layer upon layer of time loops, endless retrospection, endless gazing.

Is this the power of pollution sources?

Completely transcending human cognition, overturning all common sense and rules of the world.

But what shocked Su Ming the most was...

Wen Qi had murderous intent towards him.

Right.

In 2003, Wen Qi was not bound by the favorability rating.

She couldn't possibly fall in love at first sight.

Given her personality, it is indeed possible that she might try to kill herself to see if it would change the future.

She ultimately did not take action.

It's not that I can't bear it, it's not that I'm unwilling.

It was because that night, my future self gazed at me.

It all happened late at night in 2003.

Wen Qi had seriously considered whether or not to kill him.